Bugzilla is an awesome bug tracker that is used by hundreds of companies. I’ve got accounts on several projects’ trackers and I’m sure many others do also.
When I get mail from Bugzilla it’s not obvious which project it’s from. My email client (GMail) only shows the “from name” so all I see for [...]
One of the things that gets a lot of news time these days is XSS. There are a lot of places that explain what it is and how to prevent it but most are oversimplified or don’t provide real world examples. I thought I’d explain a couple of the ways AMO attempts to [...]
Also tagged AMO, CakePHP, PHP, securityTranslate Toolkit 1.3.0 was released a few days ago. I was following along with trunk on my development box and I wanted to upgrade our alpha install to take advantage of the new features (namely, speed improvements) and the django framework.
I attempted this tonight and it was not a pretty upgrade (or install, for [...]
This is the second update about add-ons’ statistics. Read part one.
Statistics for both update pings and download counts have been updated beginning with February 1 through today, February 6th. Some notes:
New statistics are stored in UTC and data processing happens shortly after the logs close. This means you can expect new data [...]
Also tagged add-ons, AMOAccording to the high level plan, we’re currently on step 4. The Mozilla branch has been merged back into Pootle’s trunk and work on the branch has been discontinued.
While writing code it became apparent that the framework Pootle was built on, jToolkit, had some shortcomings that were making it difficult to work with (not [...]
Add-on statistics have been intermittent for a couple months and are just recently getting the attention they need.
Our current process is to count download statistics once per day and update ping statistics once per week (update pings are a sampling of the complete set). The reliability of the script generating these statistics [...]
It’s that time of year again. Severe weather warnings. Iced over bridges. Rolling power outages. Bad weather and worse drivers.
Back in my day kids would be wishing for woolen mittens or firewood or hot potatoes they could stuff in their pockets. Nowadays all you hear about are these interactive video [...]
Building off the success and fun that was had with the Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest Mozilla has just launched a new Community Store.
This store will let anyone upload shirt designs and print custom Mozilla shirts. If you’ve got good taste but designing isn’t up your alley you’re welcome to browse and customize the [...]
Looking over what I’ve written about Verbatim I realize that I’ve never talked about the overall plan on here. Even though we’re well into it at this point it doesn’t hurt to review.
The original plan for Verbatim was to branch Pootle and continue to merge code between the branch and trunk as features were [...]
I think any good manager will tell you that looking back over the choices you’ve made is an important step to improvement. In an effort to improve myself (and help anyone in a similar situation) I wrote this post with a few thoughts about branching an open source project (in this case branching Pootle [...]
Also tagged hindsight, open web, Verbatim